Fiction - Family Life - General

Pregnant and still grieving the death of her fianc, historian Megan Buchanan is forging ahead on a dream project: to restore to its original glory the landmark hunting lodge her own great-great-grandfather built on Virginia's Eastern Shore. With the help of her fianc 's...

Celia Bernhart, on the cusp of turning 39, thinks her life is all planned out. She has a successful career selling pharmaceuticals. She's about to marry her longtime fiance, a doctor. Oh, sure, her mother and her two sisters drive her nuts, but that's...

Darcy Hogan's perfect life is all over social media. She's beautiful, she's successful, and she and her childhood sweetheart are about to become parents for the first time. But behind all the followers and the superficial likes lurks a darker truth...In reality, Darcy feels...

Maya navigates her relationships as she heads for the Florida KeysWhen Maya Raymond embarks on a bold new life in the Florida Keys, she escapes more than small-town New England. She leaves behind her beloved father, Charlie, who still grieves for Maya's long-dead mother....

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Strong Appalachian saga novel of tobacco grower family in Kentucky's 1940's...Author: P. Shaun NealISBN-10: 1947504177ISBN-13: 9781947504172Publisher: Bottom Dog PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/02/2019Pages: 240Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.78lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.54d

From the critically acclaimed author of The Apartment comes a powerful, poetic, and haunting exploration of loss, love, and isolation. An American living in London receives a phone call from a German policewoman telling him the nearly inconceivable news that his sister, Miriam, has...

Their relationship with one another leaves little room for enemies, but that doesn't stop them from trying to infiltrate the family. The Wiggins Sisters are back and matrimony is in the air along with new threats to the family. These sisters can't be outdone...

"Colorful characters, crazy hijinks, loads of literary gags and callouts create an energetic, fast-paced read in this novel. Peeking above and below all that merrymaking, from time to time, is the story of one still-secular Jew, searching, pondering the ancient texts, challenged to jibe...

In trenchant and colorful prose, Lihi Lapid tells a true-life story of women (and men) struggling to live up to expectations (most of all their own): a story about shattered dreams, and about finding the strength to gather up the pieces and learn to...

Charles Dickens (1812-1870) war ein englischer Schriftsteller. Zu seinen bekanntesten Werken geh ren Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, Eine Geschichte aus zwei St dten, Gro e Erwartungen sowie Eine Weihnachtsgeschichte. Aus dem Buch: "Da Paul dem jungen Toots bereits vorgestellt war, so erging sich dieser...

Single mom Carrie Bennet knows that her 'new' home in a run-down townhouse is a much better place than living with her cruel and controlling ex-husband, and she's determined to create a good life for herself and her two children.With a budget so tight...

The bestselling authors of The Good Widow deliver a modern, suspenseful twist on Groundhog Day that asks the question: How far are you willing to go to save the life of someone you love?Dom is having a very bad day--one he literally can't escape.When...

A single father's act of bravery leads him to a surprise second chance at love in the heartwarming new novel from the author of The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper.It's summer in the city and passions are soaring along with the temperature--for everyone but...

In the United States and Canada, more than 350,000 men, women, and young people have lost their lives to fentanyl and other drug overdoses in the past five years. In Letters from Cody, Eya narrates their story through a series of more than sixty...

In the third of the Bear Valley series, the evolving contemporary lives of the Royer and Harter families and their neighbors echo those of the early homesteaders as they confront the challenges of the weather, the isolation and hardships of ranch life as well...

Indie Author Kim Troike publishes her first story about love in the south after two hearts meet on a Marta train ride to the airport in KISS RIDE. Multi genre author Caroline Clemens gives us two holiday tales set in the Midwest and beyond....

Traumatised by what he witnessed in the streets of Sarajevo during the 1990s siege, newsman James Lambert flees back to England, seeking peace and recovery in the beauty and apparent tranquillity of the countryside. He'd narrowly escaped death from a Serbian shell and watched...

Winner of the National Book Award, White Noise tells the story of Jack Gladney, his fourth wife, Babette, and four ultra-modern offspring as they navigate the rocky passages of family life to the background babble of brand-name consumerism. When an industrial accident unleashes an...

Pretty paper and bows make promises the gift inside rarely keeps.December comes to Chancey with promises of new birth, new love, new opportunities all tied up with shiny bows. Christmas is making a comeback in Chancey with Missus Blue ribbons tied on everything that...

The saboteur with a vendetta against River Creek Stables is still at large-only now the attacker has upped the ante. The attacks are malicious and happening more often, making racing for the farm more dangerous and riskier. Can the saboteur be stopped before serious...

Thomas Finnegan "Finn" McGuinn has it all: an adoring wife, loyal friends, a childhood bestie named Beannie, year round sunshine, a car that starts, an absolutely bitchin' record collection, a mountain bike, soft trails to run on, and a community that delivers. But when...

Reproduction of the original: Bleak House by Charles DickensAuthor: Charles DickensISBN-10: 3734059011ISBN-13: 9783734059018Publisher: Outlook VerlagLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/25/2019Pages: 838Format: HardcoverWeight: 3.06lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 2.00d

"A life-altering debut featuring fierce, funny, and irreverent women who battle the most powerful institution in the world. This is the book we've all been waiting for."--Amy SchumerShe would stop at nothing to protect the women under her care.Inside a century-old row house in...

Dr Nicolas Harper is being buried in an English country churchyard, in a grave beside that of his wife. There is a stranger among the mourners at his funeral, a young woman in a yellow coat. Afterwards, she visits Dr Harper's adult daughter Hilda...

1348. A bone-sculpted angel and the woman who wears it--heretic, Devil's servant, saint. Midwife H駘o?e has always known that her bastard status threatens her standing in the French village of Lucie-sur-Vionne. Yet her midwifery and healing skills have gained the people's respect, and she...

Keepers of the Faith is set within a small Muslim sect of India, ruled by an avaricious priesthood that demands absolute submission while enforcing archaic social customs. When a section of the community rebels, it is summarily excommunicated, shunned by friends and family and...

Meet the Figgs. June, the family's matriarch, looks forward to a quiet retirement - if only she can get her three adult children to finally, finally, move out of the house. But her dreams are shattered when her son Derek unexpectedly becomes a single...

Bindings is the third book in the Turning Pages series, set in a small-town used bookshop that fosters cats. After Kris and Matt purchase old books at an estate auction for the O'Malleys, a mystery is born. Someone is desperate to get what the...

"The Golden Bowl" is a 1904 novel by Henry James. Set in England, this complex, intense study of marriage and adultery completes what some critics have called the "major phase" of James's career. The Golden Bowl explores the tangle of interrelationships between a father...

The Golden Bowl is a 1904 novel by Henry James. Set in England, this complex, intense study of marriage and adultery completes what some critics have called the "major phase" of James' career. The Golden Bowl explores the tangle of interrelationships between a father...

It's funny really. When you think about the kind of guy you are going to marry, a Romany living in an old caravan does not normally come to mind!I Can't think why can you? So, there I was 19 years old and fed up...

Father Goriot by Honore De Balzac. Translated by Ellen Marriage. Le P re Goriot is an 1835 novel by French novelist and playwright Honor de Balzac (1799-1850), included in the Scenes de la vie privee section of his novel sequence La Comedie humaine. Set...

An Amazon Charts, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post bestseller, and a Goodreads Choice Award finalist.In this gorgeously stunning debut, a mysterious child teaches two strangers how to love and trust again.After the loss of her mother and her own battle with breast cancer,...

An Amazon Charts, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post bestseller, and a Goodreads Choice Award finalist.In this gorgeously stunning debut, a mysterious child teaches two strangers how to love and trust again.After the loss of her mother and her own battle with breast cancer,...

From the bestselling author of Yellow Crocus comes a heart-wrenching story about finding strength in a new world.Southern China, 1923. Desperate to secure her future, Mei Ling's parents arrange a marriage to a widower in California. To enter the country, she must pretend to...

How many mistakes can a person make until they are unforgivable?It only takes one for Cole Campbell. After a wrong decision costs him his wife and child, he knows he's beyond redemption.How many times do you need to get burned before you stop playing...

Rita was vibrant and energetic. She was on her way to becoming the first college graduate in her family. One day, her life suddenly changed and threw a curve into her educational path. She felt she had a severe case of indigestion, but the...

Is it ever too late to run away from home?Mackie Kinsella, recently widowed, isn't sure as she boards a non-stop flight from Los Angeles to Boston. She is fleeing the land of silicone and sunshine and returning to Shoreham, a small seacoast town that...

The novel takes place during the Bourbon Restoration, which brought about profound changes in French society; the struggle of individuals to secure upper-class status is ubiquitous in the book. The city of Paris also impresses itself on the characters - especially young Rastignac, who...

Mr Polly is an ordinary middle-aged man who is tired of his wife's nagging and his dreary job as the owner of a regional gentleman's outfitters. Faced with the threat of bankruptcy, he concludes that the only way to escape his frustrating existence is...

Sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never harm me.Lies.Words destroyed me.Author: Aly MartinezISBN-10: 1973778947ISBN-13: 9781973778943Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/19/2017Pages: 270Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.51w x 0.57d

Alan and Audrey Taylor are an ordinary married couple raising three children and coping with the demands of busy careers when the unthinkable happens: their eldest daughter, Isabel, on the verge of precocious womanhood, goes missing in the middle of the night. Thus begins...

On the surface, Melanie Kingstad-Keyes's life is the picture of success. She's a tenure track professor at a prestigious university and has a perfect husband. But a recent miscarriage has left her reeling and her marriage tenuous. Selling her family's Lake Indigo summer home,...

For Madison O'Neill, it's motherhood versus Hollywood.When A-list actor Ring Stanford arrives in town claiming to be the father of her unborn child, Madison is shocked to learn he's telling the truth. Now this anonymous donor wants to be part of her baby's life....

It is 1937, and Europe is on the brink of war. Hitler is circulating a most-wanted list of "cultural degenerates"--artists, writers, and thinkers whose work is deemed antithetical to the new regime. To prevent the destruction of her favorite art (and artists), the impetuous...

WINNER OF TWO NATIONAL LITERARY AWARDSTOP SELECTION FOR A NATIONAL BOOK AWARD"One of the best novels in ten years." Hackney Literary Awards CommitteeDestined to become the next The Book Thief. For fans of Small Great Things, Before We Were Yours, and Orphan Train, and...

Iola Boggs escapes a small-minded village and is proud that she becomes a non-combat pilot during World War II. Iola meets Jim Lewis, who never served in the war but contributed in his own way to the war effort. They marry in post-war Philadelphia...

After suffering a childhood "accident" involving a campfire and a bullet, Jason Han spends his childhood being cared for by a doctor in Princeton, New Jersey while the rest of his family lives in a factory town near Scranton, Pennsylvania. Years later, as they...

Grab an Ameripass for one low fare and 'ride the Dog' across America with author Paula Coomer for a gritty, unflinching journey through some of the country's most poignant and vulnerable moments: War. Racism. Women's rights. The Sexual Revolution and more.Stop off here and...